Company
Intellectual Capital Systems LLC
Based
Massachusetts
Works on
Your own archive
Starts at
A conversation

Your body of work,
made usable.

We build private intellectual capital systems: a governed, AI-accessible version of everything you've written, decided and learned. It lives on your own disk, in your own words.

Free software to start. Consulting when the archive is worth the work.
The reasoning is in the whitepaper.

A claim note linked to a separate evidence note, with its figure marked provisional until checked.CLAIM140accountsPROVISIONALEVIDENCEworkbook · 2022 · says 112!

Fig. 01 · A claim, its evidence, and the figure held provisional

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01 · What we do

A memory you can stand behind

Most professionals with fifteen years behind them have a body of work they can't use: decks, memos, reports, notes, maybe a book. It is spread across formats and folders, and none of it has been reconciled.

Pointing a model at that pile produces a fluent demo that agrees with everything you ever wrote. A governed system produces something different: an answer that knows which of your claims you still hold, what the evidence for each one is, and where your own material disagrees with you.

That governance is the product. The software builds it; the consulting fills it; both run on the same four rules.

The four rules are not house style. They come out of an argument we published in full: Your Archive Is Not a Memory. Everything on this site is that paper, built.

01

Claims and evidence are different notes

What you assert lives apart from what backs it up, and the link runs one way. Collapsing them destroys the ability to answer why do I believe that, and is it still true?

02

Every number is provisional until a human says otherwise

A figure is a measurement someone took in a context, not a truth. It enters marked provisional and stays that way until you check it, and the system says so every time it repeats it.

03

Conflicts are surfaced, never resolved silently

When two of your sources disagree, both notes record the tension. Quietly picking one launders an open question into a confident answer.

04

Confidentiality is a hard boundary

Material from a client is marked before anything reads it. The system can draft a de-identification; it never decides one. That's yours.

02 · Who it's for

People whose judgment is the asset

Written for

  • Independent consultants and advisors whose practice runs on accumulated judgment
  • Testifying experts whose standing rests on the consistency of opinions given over decades
  • Boutique firm founders whose IP is the asset
  • Authors and practitioners with a book, a methodology, or a body of articles
  • Anyone who's been asked "where's that number from?" and had to go looking

Probably not for

  • Work that doesn't accumulate. If each engagement leaves nothing durable, there's no body of work to govern
  • Anyone wanting a five-minute AI demo. This is real software with a real install
  • Personal knowledge management. That optimises for what you read; this is about what you produced

03 · What we make

Three things, one discipline

Start with whichever you need. They share the same rules, so nothing you do in one is wasted in the next.

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The Claude plugin

Self-serve. Install it, point it at a folder, it builds and maintains the vault on your own disk.

First pack built

Runbooks

An industry's operating procedures, shipped into the vault already written, so the useful question on day one is "is this how you do it?"

Starts at a conversation

Consulting and custom automations

Us, working with you directly on your own system, from what to feed it first to the decisions it supports, and building the automations that run on top of it.

04 · Proof

What you can check yourself

Three things you can judge without taking our word for any of it: the software, the reasoning, and the way we run our own archive.

Software

The plugin runs

Install it and you have a governed vault in about fifteen minutes. The folder structure, the linter, the maintenance jobs and the claim-and-evidence rules are all in it, working.

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Reasoning

The paper is published

What breaks when you point AI at your archive, the discipline that fixes it, a worked example, and a five-signal rubric for whether any of it is working.

Read the paper →

Practice

We run it on ourselves

The company's own vault follows the same rules it sells: every figure provisional, every claim linked to its evidence, every lesson logged. That includes how we use AI to write this.

How we use AI →

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